Bouguereau The Wave painting

Bouguereau The Wave painting
Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting
Knight A Bend in the River painting
Sargent Sargent Poppies painting
"Four months! -- Have you known of this four months?" --
Elinor confirmed it.
"What! -- while attending me in all my misery, has this been on your heart? -- and I have reproached you for being happy!" --
"It was not fit that you should then know how much I was the reverse." --
"Four months!" -- cried Marianne again. -- "So calm! -- so cheerful! -- how have you been supported?"
"By feeling that I was doing my duty. My promise to Lucy, obliged me to be secret. I owed it to her, therefore, to avoid giving any hint of the truth; and I owed it to my family and friends, not to create in them a solicitude about me, which it could not be in my power to satisfy."
Marianne seemed much struck. --
"I have very often wished to undeceive yourself and my mother," added Elinor; "and once or twice I have attempted it; -- but without betraying my trust, I never could have convinced you."
"Four months! -- and yet you loved him!"